In the first week of July 2024, a summer school Sensory Heritage and Sensitive Memories in the Balkans took place in Sofia and Plovdiv. The summer school was organized by the French School in Athens, in collaboration with the University of St. Kliment Ohridski in Sofia and the Paisii Hilendarski University in Plovdiv. The program…
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Food and foodways are, as found out by many authors (see, for example, Brulotte and Di Giovine 2014; Ledinek Lozej and Šrimpf Vendramin 2020), often affording to heritagization due to identifying and connecting role of food and dishes in communities and their affecting potential. Therefore, I have dedicated my secondment at the University Ramon Llull…
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One wild man got drunk so they could tie him up. He asked them to let him go and to tell them what could be made from the milk. He showed them how to make cheese, cottage cheese and butter. Then they let him go. When they let him go, he told them that if…
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In this paper[1] I aim to show the circumstances and ways in which authorial graffiti can be, or can be constructed as, cultural heritage. I start by analysing how non-political, aesthetic graffiti and street art are treated when they appear in the public space and on buildings protected as cultural heritage in Slovenia and elsewhere.…
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When, one September evening in 1994, we met Mrs. Tonina Vidali in Škofije, a woman who had travelled to central Istria for eggs in the period between the world wars, we recorded our first interview on the topic of migrant women workers in Istria almost twenty years ago, and we were given a copy of…
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